For Father's Day my kids gave me one of those presses for making stuffed burgers so I put it to use not too long ago. The directions call for putting 8 oz. of ground beef in the press and then using 4 oz. for the cap, but my beef comes in 1-pound tubes so I made a pair of 8 oz. shells after salting the meat.

I made the mushroom stuffing backwards: instead of chopping the mushrooms and then browning them I browned them and a little garlic first so they wouldn't cook down to nothing and then ran them through the food processor.

Will there be cheese? Of course there will be cheese! In this case it was provolone and Colby-jack cut into small cubes.

Then I put the 2 halves together and added a bacon wrap to help seal the seam.

Uh-oh...cheese blowout! Fortunately that was the only breach and not all that much was lost. Plus it gave me a little advance tasting opportunity.

Anyone want to guess what might be inside?

Was your guess correct?

This was by far the best stuffed burger I've made. The pockets created by the press allowed for plenty of filling and we actually set the burger halves on edge so that all the cheese and mushrooms wouldn't run out onto the plate.

Bubba, I'd definitely recommend the press. It's just plastic and pretty simple, so it shouldn't cost very much.

I think that if I'd followed the directions there probably wouldn't have been any leakage. Start with the burger's cover side down so that it picks up some color and marks before the cheese inside starts to seriously melt, and then finish it on the shell side. With the seam between the cover and the shell being at or above the level of the filling it's a lot less likely that anything's going to escape, but the downside is that you don't get a 1-pound burger with a boatload of goo inside.

One thing I forgot to mention is that I cooked the burger indirect the whole time. By heating the grate directly over the coals and then rotating it 180 degrees to the cool zone after adding the burger the iron stayed hot enough to add some marks without having to put the meat right above the fire.

Hey Mr C, I couldn't get that pocket in the burger that the press created out of my mind. Which naturally led me down the path of "What If". So - What If you cracked an egg in that pocket and cooked the burger off heat, indirect. Think you'd get a nice oozey yolk from the middle of your burger? That would send it over the top for me.